UI researchers found that people over age 50 who played the game “Road Tour” (later re-named “Double Decision”) for at least 10 hours showed as much as seven years of cognitive improvement. “Age-related cognitive decline is real,” says lead author of the study Fredric Wolinsky, professor of public health. “We know that we can stop this decline and actually restore cognitive processing speed to...

A team of researchers led by the University of Iowa is recommending clinical guidelines that will cut post-surgical infection rate for staph bacteria (including MRSA) by 71 percent and by 59 percent for a broader class of infectious agents known as gram-positive bacteria.

Debra Waldron, director of the Division of Child and Community Health at the UI Children’s Hospital, comments on a new study that shows Johnson County is one of the 15 healthiest counties in the nation for kids.

The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital ranked in seven specialty categories in the latest U.S. News & World Report “Best Children’s Hospitals” rankings.

University of Iowa Children’s Hospital has been ranked in seven specialties in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-14 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings.

A genetic breeding experiment to probe brain circuits involved in compulsive behavior has revealed a surprising connection with obesity. Loss of an obesity-causing gene restored normal grooming behavior in OCD mice. Surprisingly, the OCD mutation also restored normal body weight in obese mice.

Joann (Jo) Eland, UI College of Nursing associate professor, took a group of 18 students to India this past academic year, where she taught a three-week course titled "Hospice, Pain, and Palliative Care."

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will honor seven individuals at its Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony and luncheon Friday, June 7.

University of Iowa researchers in the College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics looked at the acidities of the things people drink, and how acidity correlated with tooth erosion.

Some dietary supplements once thought to slow the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have been proven to either show no effect or may even be harmful to some segments of the population.

The FUTURE in Biomedicine program brings faculty and students from Iowa's primarily undergraduate institutions to work with UI biomedical scientists in summer-long research collaborations.

Mason City oral surgeon Dr. Lyell Hogg, a native of Scotland and an alumnus of the UI College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics, traveled a long way to become a fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes.